OK after being scared, i installed it. After shutting off instant 3D, and getting used to the flyout toolbars.... i don't mind it.
Searching the feature tree is nice, as are the flyouts when you click on a feature to edit sketch/feature.
The UI seems to bog down the process a little bit more...
I should have rephrased. I am scared after Beta 1. I will end up installing it today.. I will go into it open minded.
I am actually looking forward to the save to illustrator format right out of a drawing.
In all seriousness,
The problem with many raster to vector converters is that the original line work (...design) gets butchered hard 9.999 times out of 10. It's best to insert it as a sketch picture and make clean line work over it in Solidworks.
I have fooled with many of them from adobe...
If they are small areas, you can use the fill surface command, and apply a tangent/contact relation to each edge.
After you make all the surfaces that you think you need to make it a solid, use the Knit Surface command, and check the box that says 'Try to form Solid'.
You can also knit after...